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Henrietta Louisa (Farrer) Lear (1824-1896)
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She was the widow of the Rev. Sidney Lear (d.1867), and was living at 15 The Close, Salisbury in the 1891 census. She published devotional and historical works and fiction from 1835, mainly anonymously but sometimes as ‘Mrs Sidney Lear’. Henry James, reviewing her 1875 life of Hyppolite Flandrin in the Nation (26 August 1875), described the tone as ‘a trifle “goody” perhaps - a trifle too suggestive of what is called “Sunday reading”’.
